Oat sprouter



Oct. 23, 1928.

J. wAsTAK OAT SPROUTER Filed Feb.28, 1927n which may drop therein, and anumber ofy Patented oct. 23, 192s.

AUNITED STATES PATENT ori-ice 'JOSEPH WASTAL or CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

' Application filed February 28,1927. Serial No. 171,389.

jointed and packed within Y a relatively` small spa-ce for shipping orthe like.

Other objects and advantages will appear from a consideration of thefollowing description and the accompanying drawings showing one formwhich the invention may take, wherein- Fig. 1 is a view in perspectiveof my improved oat sprouter.

Fig. 2 is an end elevation partly in secs t-ion, of a group of nestedpans ready for storage or shipment, and

Fig. 3 is a detail of one of the legs.

In accomplishing the invention I provide a drip pan adapted to be placedlowermost to receive waste material, water, et cetera,

sprouter pans adapted to be placed above the drip pan, and above eachother, to form a series of tiers. Each sprouter pan has four readilyremovable legs, one at each corner, secured in such a `manner thereto,that they may be supported withinv the interior and on the bottom of alower pan. The pans have outiiared sides, making them nestable', and thelegs are readily removable, without the use of any tools whatever, topermit such nesting.

Referring now to the drawings, the sprouter comprises a drip pan 10 anda plurality of sprouter pans 11( The drip pan, as shown, is a shallowpan with an imperforate bottom l2 and slightly outflaring sides, and isdesigned solely for the purpose of catching matter falling from thesprouter Jans.

l Each sprouter pan has a perforated bottom 13, and outilaringimperforate sides, with a leg 11i, secured at each corner thereof. Thelegs comprise a half loop 14a. of heavy gauge wire', adapted to formafoot, with two right angular end portions 14b adapted to connect the legto the corner of the pan. To facilitate engagement the bottom of the panis incised to form two sections 16 and 17 upstanding from the plane ofthe bottom 13, with an intermediate-section 18 depressed slightlydownwardly. This forms a4` slot into which the end 14h of a leg can beextended. f

. Fig. :3 shows the leg `partly expanded.l Byemployng a spring materialfor the legs, and vshaping them with the ends too far apart to` engagethe slots in the` pans without compressing them, I amable toobtain atight connection between the pans and legs and la. consequent sturdyconstruction'.

After the legs are -inplaceytheir continued i'.

tendency to expand'keeps them in place.

The legs are positioned so that their feet may rest on the bottom of thenext lower pan. This permits the forming of tiers in the manner shown.

The manner in which the sprouter is employed is as follows: vAfter theparts are manufactured the pans are nested for storage or shipping. Thelegs may be placed vin the uppermost pan, as shown in Fig- 2, or may behandled separately as desired. lVhen shipping, the arrangementillustrated is preferable.

YWhen the sprouter, including any desirable number of sprouter pans,with' a single drip pan, is received, the drip pan is placed 1n anydesirable location, where the temperature will be warm enough to sproutthe grain. The legs are applied to one Ysprouter pan,

- and the assembled `pan is then placed over the drip pan. The bottom isthen covered with oats, anda suticient amount of warm water pouredthereon- The operation is then repeated until a sufliciently high tierof pans results` l Water is added to thepans from time to time until theoats have sprouted to form a .thick matted mass, whereupon it may bebroken up for poultry food.

lVhat I claim as new and desire to secure by United States `LettersPatent is:

l. Anoat sprouter comprising a drip pan and a number of sprouter pansadapted to be placed one above the other to form tiers,

each sprouter pan having a plurality of'y readily removable legs adaptedv-to extend into the next lower pan for a support, o'r to be removed sothat all of the pans can be nested.

2. An oat sprouterxcomprising a'drip 'pan' and a number of sprouterpans, the sprouter pans having legs slidably secured thereto,

the sprouter adapted tov be set up in a num-l ber of tiers withv thedrip pan lowermost and supportmg therein the legs ,of the next highersprouter pan in the tier, the legs being removable by simply withdrawingthe same and the pans being nestable when the legs are so removed.

3. The oat sprouter defined in Vclaim 2 wherein said legs consist ofarticulated sec-v.

tions of heavy gauge Wire with the two ends formed at right angles tothe major portion of the legs, transverse slots in the corner of thepans serving to receive said ends in slidable relation to support thelegs.

4. An oat sprouter comprising a number Aof pans adapted to be placed oneabove the other to form tiers, the lowermos't pan unperforated, whilethe upper pans adapted to lhold the oats lhave perforated bottoms, the

pans having readily removable individual legs and being ncstable forshipping.

5. An oat sprouter comprising a pan with outflaring sidesand`.perforated bottom, with readily removable individual legs, the legsbeing as to form a tier of pans.

6. An oat sprouter comprising a drip pan,

of adapted to set Within a lower pan, so

a plurality of sprouter pans, and removable legs secured to the sprouterpans, the drip Vpa-n being shallow, with outlaring sides and imperforatebottom, the sprouter pans being of like shape with perforated bottomsand side slots formed from the metal of the y" bottom, andthe legscomprising looped sections .of wire with the ends turned at" rightangles to the main body, ofV the:'legs and adapted to slide into thebottom slots of the sprouter pans for attachment thereto, the

